The Relationship between Zoom Use with the Camera on and Zoom Fatigue: Considering Self-Monitoring and Social Interaction Anxiety

Investigates the mechanisms linking camera-on Zoom use to mental exhaustion, finding that self-monitoring and social interaction anxiety mediate the relationship. Unlike telephone or text, the platform's architecture of mandatory mutual visibility imposes a specific cognitive and emotional burden that is unevenly distributed across personality types.

The mediating role of self-monitoring in camera-on fatigue reveals that video platforms create a new form of reflexive self-knowledge through constant awareness of one's own visible performance. What users "know" about themselves in a Zoom meeting is fundamentally different from what they know in a phone call, because the platform makes self-perception an unavoidable component of interaction.